Christopher Gray (1) (1950–2017)
Autore di New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buidlings and Landmarks
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Christopher Stewart Gray was born in Kansas City, Missouri on April 24, 1950. He received a bachelor's degree in art history from the School of General Studies at Columbia University in 1975. Soon afterward, he opened the Office for Metropolitan History. This was a research bureau for hire that mostra altro determined a building's provenance by poring over deeds, street atlases, directories, microfilm, and old photographs. He began writing a column for Avenue magazine in 1980 and another one for House and Garden in 1982. He wrote the Streetscapes column in The New York Times from 1987 to 2014. A collection of his columns entitled New York Streetscapes: Tales of Manhattan's Significant Buildings and Landmarks was published in 2003. He died from pneumonia complicated by an unspecified underlying illness on March 10, 2017 at the age of 66. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di Christopher Gray
History of East 68th Street 1 copia
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Gray, Christopher Stewart
- Data di nascita
- 1950-04-24
- Data di morte
- 2017-03-10
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
- Istruzione
- Columbia University (BA|1975)
- Attività lavorative
- architectural detective
social historian - Organizzazioni
- Office for Metropolitan History
New York Times ("Streetscapes")
St. James' Episcopal Church, NYC
House & Garden
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Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 7
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 170
- Popolarità
- #125,474
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 23
- Lingue
- 2
Across nine chapters Gray describes the history of the residential neighborhood's development, which managed to grow in its location due to its height on bluffs above the East River, an elevation that made it inhospitable for industrial uses. Over the decades the area was impacted greatly by two transportation conduits: Queensboro Bridge and FDR Drive. The latter, in particular, was accommodated through the difference between the streets and river, such that a series of plazas -- and even buildings -- bridge over the drive. Beyond these two elements, Gray manages to find many aspects of the small neighborhood that make it worthy of a compact history.… (altro)